Dinias, a general of Cassander. Diodorus, bk. 19.——A man of Pheræ, who seized the supreme power at Cranon. Polyænus, bk. 2.——A man who wrote a history of Argos. Plutarch, Aratus.
Dinĭche, the wife of Archidamus. Pausanias, bk. 3, ch. 10.
Dinŏchăres, an architect who finished the temple of Diana at Ephesus, after it had been burnt by Erostratus.
Dinŏcrătes, an architect of Macedonia, who proposed to Alexander to cut mount Athos in the form of a statue, holding a city in one hand, and in the other a basin, into which all the waters of the mountain should empty themselves. This project Alexander rejected as too chimerical, but he employed the talents of the artist in building and beautifying Alexandria. He began to build a temple in honour of Arsinoe, by order of Ptolemy Philadelphus, in which he intended to suspend a statue of the queen, by means of loadstones. His death, and that of his royal patron, prevented the execution of a work which would have been the admiration of future ages. Pliny, bk. 7, ch. 37.—Marcellinus, bk. 22, ch. 40.—Plutarch, Alexander.——A general of Agathocles.——A Messenian, who behaved with great effeminacy and wantonness. He defeated Philopœmen, and put him to death, B.C. 183. Plutarch, Titus Flamininus.
Dinŏdŏchus, a swift runner. Pausanias, bk. 6, ch. 1.
Dinolŏchus, a Syracusan, who composed 14 comedies. Ælian, de Natura Animalium, bk. 6, ch. 52.
Dinŏmĕnes, a tyrant of Syracuse. Pausanias, bk. 3, ch. 42.
Dinon, a governor of Damascus, under Ptolemy, &c. Polyænus, bk. 4.——The father of Clitarchus, who wrote a history of Persia in Alexander’s age. He is esteemed a very [♦]authentic historian by Cornelius Nepos, Conon.—Plutarch, Alexander.—Diogenes Laërtius.
[♦] ‘anthentic’ replaced with ‘authentic’
Dinosthĕnes, a man who made himself a statue of an Olympian victor. Pausanias, bk. 6, ch. 16.